Acronis TI v10 and Vista

Inactive · Apr 14, 2008, 12:54:48

There is a name for this type of operation Noreen, I cannot remember what it is, but they kind of act as a middle man.

Noreen · Apr 14, 2008, 12:57:08

Rik, do you think that I would HAVE to register it with them or could I register it with Acronis?

Rik · Apr 14, 2008, 12:58:05

I suspect it will register directly with Acronis, Noreen.

Noreen · Apr 14, 2008, 13:05:31

I only want to register it so that I can update it to the latest v10 if necessary.

Rik · Apr 14, 2008, 13:08:18

Just go to the Acronis site to register, I doubt you'll have any problems, but if you do Acronis would probably want to know about them, if you see what I mean. My copy of 10 is also republished by Computrolley, and I just registered, as normal, on the Acronis site. (Hadn't noticed at the time, just got the case out to check. My registration card is still in it, I didn't bother to use it.)

Noreen · Apr 14, 2008, 14:43:15

Right, it's now installed. It was v4871 so I went to Acronis UK and registered but when I eventually clicked on "get update" nothing happened, so I went to the main US site and got it from there and it's now installed as v4942 which I believe is the latest.

Inactive · Apr 14, 2008, 14:54:27

A result, well done Noreen..

Noreen · Apr 14, 2008, 15:15:03

I'm putting off doing any more with it for now, I've got to recuperate.

Rik · Apr 14, 2008, 15:16:24

A stiff Drambuie is called for.

Noreen · Apr 14, 2008, 15:23:21

Good idea except that I haven't got any.

Rik · Apr 14, 2008, 15:26:43

I could pour some into the router and see if it makes it to you.

Noreen · Apr 14, 2008, 15:34:51

I think that I'll survive, thanks Rik. What a mess that would make of your router.

BTW I accidentally left the Acronis CD in the laptop when I rebooted after installation and so it booted. I was interested to see that the problem with the Logitech mouse still existed, the mouse would only move on the right hand side of the screen (my description of the problem in that other thread was incorrect). Had to use the touchpad to get out of it.

Rik · Apr 14, 2008, 15:35:51

I usually just release the drawer and Ctrl+Alt+Del in that situation.

Steve · Apr 14, 2008, 19:06:39

I have had problems with the acronis cd boot on a couple of machines i.e booting into a useable state and identfying backups on local drives and network drives. The creation of the boot rescue media CD using the latest version (4942) allowed me to restore my laptop over the network whereas an earlier version failed to identify my network. On the other machine the rescue media didnt work at all except in safe mode, however using the acronis plugin for BartPE solved the problem.

Noreen · Apr 17, 2008, 10:10:28

Just a little bit of progress to report so far, I've made a Boot CD from the updated version. I haven't made a backup yet.

Rik · Apr 17, 2008, 10:11:43

Does it boot OK?

Noreen · Apr 17, 2008, 15:39:50

Oh yes, I made sure of that.

Rik · Apr 17, 2008, 15:40:28

That's half the battle, anyway.

Sebby · Apr 17, 2008, 18:27:17

That is good to hear, Noreen.

Noreen · Apr 17, 2008, 22:42:42

I made my first full image backup this evening. I then validated it externally using the Boot CD and it was OK.

Took 1 hour and 20 mins to validate though. I intend to keep two full image backups at all times.

Sebby · Apr 17, 2008, 23:46:43

More good news.

Simon · Apr 18, 2008, 00:47:38

Nice one Noreen!

Malc · Apr 18, 2008, 07:42:41

Great work Noreen, glad things are getting back to normal

Rik · Apr 18, 2008, 08:55:52

If you can store one of the backups with a friend or relative, Noreen, it would be even better. (I'm just a perfectionist!

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